Temple Mount News Update You are invited to participate in the Laying and Annointing Cornerstones for the Third Temple Feast of Tabernacles, Thursday, 4th October. We shall meet at the Western Wall plaza close to the western (Mugrabi) gate of the Temple Mount.

Introduction to Crisis in Evangelical Scholarship- "I could not stand on Masada without realizing that something of a critical nature happened there which marked a new era in God's redemptive plan. It seemed like a moment of cleavage, with the old order giving way to the new Messianic order, and Jews completed in Christ, violently and suddenly (albeit unwillingly) being severed from their Jewish traditions."

9/18: Israel won't join USA anti-terrorism coalition - "It is inconceivable to grant [Yasser Arafat] legitimacy because someone thinks that might facilitate the inclusion of Arab countries in this coalition," Sharon told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth, referring to the Palestinian leader. "We will not pay the price for the establishment of this coalition."

9/17: The bloody Jordan now flows through America - "Until a just resolution of that conflict is realized -- one that provides a homeland for the Palestinian people and security for Israel -- it will be far more difficult for America to put together a truly committed coalition to fight terrorism, one that is not simply held together by coercion."9/16: The ANTI-Preterist Club @ Yahoo9/16: Full Preterist Studies Club 9/14: Forty Days at Jotapata - Military History9/14: Illustrated History of the Roman Empire9/13: Biblical Apocalyptics - Milton Terry9/11: The Cult of Preterism - Bob Cope (Dispensationalist)"Preterism is actually a very old, religious cult.. If one really knows Christian doctrine, and carefully analyzes the tenets of Preterism, one invariably arrives at the astonishing conclusion that Preterism necessarily eliminates (church history) and all Christian doctrine!.. Preterism is deadly to an individual's faith.. Preterism leads one back to bondage under Jewish law.."9/5: A Brief History of the Apocalypse9/5: The Apocalypse in Christian Art9/3: Will the Real Anti-Prophets Please Stand Up? Gary DeMar

"There are only three lawful ways out of a local congregation: by death, by letter of transfer, and by excommunication. Presbyterian laymen who have been brought before the church's session because they are suspected of holding heretical preterism, and who persist in their commitment to heretical preterism by refusing to sign a statement that is consistent with the Westminster standards, must be removed from membership in the local congregation by excommunication."5/5: The Hiding Place Message Boards4/29: Worship and the Threshing Floor - Don Walker4/27: Discussion on Preterism - "Full" Preterism

3/31: Split Decision, Olivet Stands United from The Preterist ABCs - Dan Harden wrote to refute Gentry's "nine points" for splitting the Olivet Discourse. (see On the "transitional verses" in Matthew 24 - Ken Gentry)3/30:
FP: Sushil George - Resolving Eschatological Polemics3/30: Added Preterist Audio Web Man to Other Study Links3/29:
FP: T. VanWyngaarden - Some Problems With Premillennial Preterism3/29: USA 'understands' Israeli frustration that prompted air strikes: official3/20: The New Exodus - MF Blume - "This study shows the uncanny parallel between the book of Exodus with the Book of Revelation."3/20: Added The Mountain Retreat Files to Grace3/20: Added
Commentary and Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse to Isaac Newton3/20: Non-Preteristic Biblical Historicism - F. Nigel Lee (PDF File)3/16: Premillennial Preterism - Duncan McKenzie3/16: Dom Touttee's St. Cyril (1790) "These ruins the Jews first demolished with their own hands, thus concurring to the accomplishment of our Saviour's prediction. Then they began to dig the new foundation, in which work many thousands were employed. But what they had thrown up in the day was, by repeated earthquakes, the night following cast back again into the trench. "And when Alypius the next day earnestly pressed on the work, with the assistance of the governor of the province, there issued," says Ammianus, "'such horrible balls of fire out of the earth near the foundations,'[23] which rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen. And the victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent as it were to drive them to a distance, Alypius thought proper to give over the enterprise."3/16: The Ninth of Ab - Carl Hagensick "Much was lost. Over 500,000 Jewish civilians were slaughtered. The temple was destroyed, never to be rebuilt, even to the present time. Animal sacrifices were never reinstituted on a large scale. Since the genealogical records were burned with the temple, the priesthood could no longer function. The annual temple tax was diverted to Rome. "The Romans now ordered the Jews to send the same annual sum, not to Jerusalem, but to the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill of Rome. The insult was deliberate. The sum involved was petty. The real point was, that despite the pride of the Jews in the God of heaven, they had to pay tribute to the Olympian god who presumably had conquered him and was entitled to be his heir" (A History of the Jews, page 171)."3/16: Ken Gentry
- On the "transitional verses" in Matthew 24
(2000)3/16: A Letter to a Full Preterist - Bill Grimes "In reading the above passages that I have quoted to you and others the “particulars of the words” lead me to believe that they are to be taken literally. History teaches us that Jesus’ words in Matthew 24:1-35 were fulfilled quite literally in the cloud judgment that fell upon Jerusalem and Israel in AD70 at the hands of the Romans. This fact encourages me, because I know that when the Second Parousia does come, it will come in the same fashion as Jesus and the Apostles described it."3/16:
Jesse Whitlock : The Book of Romans vs. Preterism "This is a small sample of how the book of Romans rocks realized eschatology to its knees!"3/16: Examining the Logical Foundations of Preterism - Rusty Entrekin "I believe that the evangelism of the cities of Israel was interrupted by the war associated with 70 AD, and is still not complete. To prove otherwise, you would have to provide historical evidence that the gospel has been thoroughly proclaimed in each city by born again, evangelical church planters."3/16: Phillip Brown
- This Generation Shall Not Pass3/16: The Non-Preterist Historicalism of Calvin and Westminster3/16: Tommy Ice
- Preterist Implications for the New Testament3/16:
Christianity and the Cults - Jay Rogers "Although not a large group, Hymanaeism is a grave threat to biblical orthodoxy. Hymenaeism is a primary heresy, far more serious than Chiliasm or dispensationalism, as it completely denies one of the essential tenets of the Apostles and Nicene Creeds, that Christ will come again, physically to the earth, to judge the living and the dead"3/15: Controverting the Incontrovertible - Phil Johnson (JMAC's book editor) responds to Gary Demar's Defending the Indefensible3/8: http://www.beyondtheendtimes.com/ - Preterist Eschatology Conference March 31 in La Mirada, CA3/7: Added The Wright Stuff on Jesus to N.T. Wright

Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

As we approached the year 2000, the preterism was taking a back seat to premillennialism. In the driver's seat were premillennial views that the end times could be near. However, after the hype of Y2K died down, preterism began to make gains. Enough so that Grant Jeffrey devoted a significant portion of his book, "Triumphant Return," to defending premillennialim; Dr. Larry Spargimino wrote "The Anti-Prophets: The Challenge of Preterism"; and popular author Thomas Ice produced a series of articles for "The Midnight Call" magazine on the preterist/premillennilist debate. more...

Title-page of Ussher’s Annals of the World: The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans1658

Flavius Josephus was a leader of the rebellion against Rome (68 CE) who capitulated and became a penisoner of the Roman Emperor Vespasian. He wrote a history of the Jews and of the War of Rebellion in Greek, the scholar's language in the Roman empire. Edward Bernard (1638-1696), professor of astronomy at Oxford, prepared this scholarly Greek-Latin edition, of which only a part was published. Printed in 1686-87, it appeared with a new title page in 1700 (Flavii Josephi Antiquitatum Judaicarum, Oxford, 1700, Rare book and Special Collections Division, Jefferson Library, Library of Congress Photo)

"we must expect a progress of evil... Truly Christendom has become completely corrupted, the dispensation of the Gentiles has been found unfaithful: can it be restored? No! Impossible."- J.N. Darby

"Israel could have accepted (Jesus) as Messiah and He would have ushered in the millennial Kingdom. Somehow, Jesus would have been crucified at some later point to fulfill the prophecy and provide salvation of all those who repent of their sins."- Grant Jeffrey

The establishment of a heathen temple on the site of the Temple, one year later, by the Roman emperor Hadrian. He rebuilt Jerusalem as a pagan city - renamed Aelia Capitolina - which was forbidden to Jews.

“(the Oslo accords failed) primarily and most importantly because Israel never committed itself to the only goal that could have made possible such an agreement—a viable, sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Without such a clearly defined goal, so-called confidence-building measures have no chance whatever of achieving their purpose.” more...

Examples could be multiplied, in every field. The whole rise of Western Civilization—science and technology, medicine, the arts, constitutionalism, the jury system, free enterprise, literacy, increasing productivity, a rising standard of living, the high status of women—is attributable to one major fact: the West has been transformed by Christianity. True, the transformation is not yet complete. There are many battles ahead. But the point is that, even in what is still largely an early Christian civilization, God has showered us with blessings. - David Chilton, Paradise Restored

When the sun has come, darkness prevails no longer; any of it that may be left anywhere is driven away. So also, now that the Divine epiphany of the Word of God has taken place, the darkness of idols prevails no more, and all parts of the world in every direction are enlightened by His teaching.St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation [55]